Category:Dismarc portal

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The DISMARC Portal

DISMARC will establish a gateway to freely available audio-content which will increase the visibility of the individual collections and make the content discoverable to a wider audience. The project offers music archives the opportunity to submit music collections for aggregation in the DISMARC repository via harvesting of the metadata records associated with the resources.

The purpose of the DISMARC project is to establish a metadata platform for the discovery and diffusion of knowledge concerning music data.

The project addresses problems of interactivity between different systems, which are mainly caused by varying methods of metadata description. Existing software tools are used to map fields from each database onto a project-defined standard format.

The DISMARC Metastore provides a single user interface allowing users to access audio and audio-related data of the DISMARC partners. The purpose of the DISMARC Metastore and portal is to make it easier for users (the academic community, the general public and the media) to find and access the vast and often undisclosed number of audio and audio-related data held in various sound archives.

How the search works

The DISMARC search engine carries out searches in the normalized metadata of various distributed databases.

The term metadata hereby refers to the cataloguing and indexing information describing the data items. For metadata harvesting DISMARC uses the international standard “Open Archives Initiative protocol (OAI-MPH)” (www.openarchives.org ). The DISMARC OAI-PMH harvester supports the Dublin Core metadata schema which has been adapted to the needs of music metadata on the basis of the Dublin Core application profile for libraries (DC-Lib). OAI-PMH enables connecting distributed electronic repositories of many kinds.

The data may be searched via multilingual features and vocabularies. The portal itself also supports multilinguality.